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this is a panic-corrupted buffer joke

Four elements in a single address is an insane flex


YTbErYb, Sc?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ytterby ("Ytterby is the single richest source of elemental discoveries in the world; the chemical elements yttrium (Y), terbium (Tb), erbium (Er), and ytterbium (Yb) are all named after Ytterby")


YTbErYb, Sc

Eu

You could *almost* squeeze in a seventh, as Holmium is named after the city of Stockholm; and the city Ytterby is in the greater Stockholm area, in Sweden. Sadly, Ytterby doesn't seem to be contained in any political division with a proper name containing "Stockholm". So, that doesn't work. (Though Ytterby is in a geographic region called the "Stockholm archipelago").


He/she forgot Na for National.


Except all of the elements in the address above were at least partially discovered at that address or by teams with connections to that lab. Although usually it is a joint discovery with at least one other lab.

Na is a bit older than those labs.

Berkeley Lawrence elements: https://www2.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/new-elements-h...

Lawrence Livermore elements: https://www.llnl.gov/article/41866/lawrence-livermore-credit...


Magnetic Vector Potential?


the author's own rebound story feels nothing short of magical...


to the kernel developer everything is a kernel


I'm not a kernel developer!

The Linux kernel is just a much closer analogy than your average piece of software would be, because the Linux kernel actually has this distinct step that generates a standalone build config file that later build steps read.

Most regular software build infrastructure (autoconf, cmake, etc) just directly "burns in" any passed-in build config as generated code, without any intermediary file storing the config itself — which is a very different and not-very-analogous process. (That'd be more like if our epigenome was an extra chromosome of DNA built up during development!)


apologists everywhere are all the same


Locked Markdown sounds so close to my favourite defense contractor


"Apparently throwing money at senators is a literal no-brainer"


Isn't this the premise of Silicon Valley (the show)?


Ah yes, India is responsible for the woes of the US, as opposed to decades of economic malfeasence


They export their poverty to the world. They should all stay in India and make India Great Again. Who needs them here....


I voted for Harris but I'm sick of H1Bs and seeing jobs getting outsourced to India and everywhere else outside of USA. I'm programmer and looking to switch to nursing because if it.


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